coller
French, verb/kɔ.le/
coller is spelled C-O-L-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coller is a French verb meaning “to stick (together), to glue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Joindre et faire tenir deux choses ensemble avec de la colle”.
What does coller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to stick (together), to glue
coller une image sur un mur
- 2
to approach too closely; to be too close
Ne te colle pas comme ça à moi !
- 3
colloquialto place
- 4
colloquialto give; to hand over
- 5
to fit well; to suit
- 6
slangto be dumbfounded; to be in a daze
Arrête de coller, réveille toi.
- 7
to be sticky; to stick
se coller au plafond
- 8
slangto have an affair
se coller avec une poulette
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Joindre et faire tenir deux choses ensemble avec de la colle. 2. Unir fortement des choses entre elles ou à d’autres. 3. Enduire, imprégner de colle. 4. Mettre dans du vin, de la gélatine ou quelque autre ingrédient, pour conserver ou rendre sa limpidité.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of coller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- collant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- collé participle past
- colle first-person indicative present
- colles indicative present second-person
- collons first-person indicative plural
- collez indicative plural present
- collent indicative plural present
- collais first-person imperfect indicative
- collait imperfect indicative singular
- collions first-person imperfect indicative
- colliez imperfect indicative plural
- collaient imperfect indicative plural
- collai first-person historic indicative
- collas historic indicative past
- colla historic indicative past
- collâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coller?
- /kɔ.le/
- \kɔ.le\
- [ko.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to coller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coller in French?
coller appears 11 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).